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Mayor Carol Smith was shot down by her fellow council members Tuesday as she urged everyone to consider stepping up enforcement of rules at the Ojai Skate Park — specifically involving the community's youth and the park's helmet regulations. Smith pleaded with the council to see the issue from a moral and ethical viewpoint. “… I begin to think about little children that are basically at risk for suffering from traumatic brain injury," Smith told the council. "I am very sure that we need to have some kind of monitoring to prevent that kind